Effective December 25, 2025, the Postal Service™ is revising the Individual Country Listing for Iraq in Mailing Standards of the United States Postal Service, International Mail Manual (IMM®) to update the list of prohibited items to remove the entries for “electronic items of all kinds” and “lithium batteries.”
This revision is based on a formal request that Iraq Post and Savings Public Company (the designated postal operator of Iraq) made through the Universal Postal Union via International Bureau Circular (IBC) 175, dated November 10, 2025. This change reverses the prohibitions established by IBC 105, dated July 7, 2025, and published in the Postal Bulletin (PB 22687), on October 16, 2025.
Mailing Standards of the United States Postal Service, International Mail Manual (IMM)
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Individual Country Listings
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Iraq
Country Conditions for Mailing
Prohibitions
[Remove the entries “Electronic items of all kinds” and “Lithium batteries” in their entirety.]
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Although effective December 25, 2025, the Postal Service will incorporate this revision into the January 18, 2026, edition of the online IMM, which is available via Postal Explorer® at pe.usps.com.
— Product Classification,
Product Solutions, 12-25-25
